I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself.

She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.

The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.

It was as if, before she`d met him, her blood had circulated grayly around her body, and now ir was all oxygenated and red. She was petrified of becoming the half-alive person she`d been before.